ISCA Archive Interspeech 2015
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2015

Personalization of word-phrase-entity language models

M. Levit, Andreas Stolcke, R. Subba, S. Parthasarathy, S. Chang, S. Xie, T. Anastasakos, Benoit Dumoulin

We continue our investigations of Word-Phrase-Entity (WPE) Language Models that unify words, phrases and classes, such as named entities, into a single probabilistic framework for the purpose of language modeling. In the present study we show how WPE LMs can be adapted to work in a personalized scenario where class definitions change from user to user or even from utterance to utterance. Compared to traditional class-based LMs in various conditions, WPE LMs exhibited comparable or better modeling potential without requiring pre-tagged training material. We also significantly scaled the experimental setup by widening the target domain, amplifying the amount of training material and increasing the number of classes.